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Hope she doesn't kick my butt, but I simply HAD to repost this. Everything I think and so much more...
Vow To My Animals
Dear Animal of Mine,
today I have found you, whether on the street, from a rescue or shelter, or (don't tell anyone) a breeder. Today I have made the choice to make you a part of my family. I want to promise you the following:
1. I will never leave you. If I move, you're coming with me. Even if I lost my home, I'd rather be homeless on the street
you than in housing
you. If I go overseas, I'll do everything I can to get you a 'pet passport' so you don't have to sit in quarantine, and even if you, I'll visit you every day. If I move, I won't even
at housing that isn't pet-friendly. If a landlord or an HOA tells me I can't have you there, I will tell him, her, or them to kiss my Irish ass and I'll take my money somewhere where your status as family member is appreciated.
2. I will feed you decent quality food so that your organs don't deteriorate from all that crap they put in cheap stuff. If I'm
good, I'll even cook for you.
3. I will take you to the vet regularly, even if I have to go without to do so. If you get sick, I'll sell my writing/labor/household goods/plasma/sperm-ova/internal organs to scrape up the money to heal you. And yes, that includes stooping to selling drugs, my ass, or multi-level marketing, too.
4. When you are old and you aren't as spunky/healthy/chipper as you used to be, I won't dump you at a shelter/park/field. I will grow old right beside you, and I will clean up your puke/poop/pee. However, if you are too sick to enjoy life any more, I will get over my own selfishness and walk you into the next life in a peaceful, humane, ultimately gentle way - and I won't walk away and let the vet do the dirty business; I'll hold you in my arms until you drift off.
5. I will never hit you, shake you, toss you, confine you, chain you, scream at you, or make you the misplaced target of my rage.
6. I will never leave you alone overnight. You will always have a sitter to check on you if I have to leave home for a bit.
7. I will never make you sleep outside or let you spend your days anywhere that isn't warm, dry, safe, and loving.
8. I will never mistake you for a fashion statement, symbol of prestige, substitute child, or whipping post.
9. I will socialize you early and often so that you don't end up the Unabomber of the dog (or insert other species here) world. I will take you out to PLAY, and run, and make friends.
10. I will never tie you up outside a store.
11. If I ever have children, I will not get rid of you. My spawn will just think of you as a short, furry brother or sister with a speech impediment.
12. If any of my friends or relatives express dislike for you, they'llgo immediately into the 'infrequent rotation' pile. And if a person doesn't like animals in general, well, I just don't trust 'em.
13. Whatever trauma you suffered before I found you, I'll work every day to help you forget it. I hope that someday you won't remember anything except being loved.
14. I will stand up for your species and call out a fool I see mistreating one of your
15. If I meet a man/woman who is Mr./Ms. Right but he or she is allergic/doesn't like animals, I'll politely ask him or her to commit to a lifetime of allergy meds or move it into the Friend Zone
, stat.
16. I will see you in heaven, provided I get there.
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Yet, Thursday the school board was back to wrestling over a new location for Anniston Middle School. In May, the board voted to close the school at its McClellan Boulevard location and place a new junior high at the location of Cobb Elementary School.
The good news, one worthy of applause, was that the board actually got around to approving the closure of the current middle school, something the previous board took a pass on.
The bad news is that it was only a half-measure. Shrinking enrollment has left the district with far more elementary schools than it needs. (By way of comparison, Jacksonville educates almost 900 students in one elementary school. For only 300 more students, Anniston has five elementary schools.) Yet, deep consolidation of elementary schools was put off for another day.
Now, just three months later, the board is having second thoughts on the middle school's new location — not that all of this is bad. We applaud Donna Ross, the school board president, for expressing misgivings about relocation to the Cobb Elementary site, especially considering the acreage and facilities available on the Anniston High campus. Our suggestion is for the board to scrap its plans at Cobb and instead place the middle school on part of the Anniston High campus.
Kudos to board member Bill Robison for reminding his colleagues of their top priority — education. "What we have done, unequivocally," Robison said Thursday, "is we have changed this thing from being academic- and system- and student-oriented to being money-oriented … rather than what is the best academic setting for the kids and to make the best use of the money."
Or, as we put it at the outset: The school system's problem has nothing to do with real estate. It's a graduation rate that places Anniston near the very bottom of Alabama's 500 high schools. It's about building a school system that is attractive to newcomers — both businesses and residents, alike.
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Goodison was born in 1947 in Kingston, Jamaica, on the 1st of August - the Jamaican Emancipation Day, on which the abolition of slavery is commemorated. She originally trained to be a painter, and has said that she aims to bring the technique of chiaroscuro to her writing: "All these light images I place in relief to dark historical facts or hold them up as talismans against the sense of hopelessness and despair which can overwhelm us as human beings." Her work focuses on the struggle and celebration of those living in a country with a tragic history and she has said in interview that she believes the health of Caribbean poetry lies in the hands of its contemporary writers: "They are the ones that have to tell the half that has never been told, and they will tell it".
Many of Goodison's poems are about the different roles a woman can play, and one of her best known, 'For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength)', tells how her mother - "a child of the petite bourgeoisie/studying to be a teacher" - fell in love with a working class man who "had nothing but words to woo her." The couple moved from the lush countryside of Harvey River to a busy street in Kingston, and went on to have nine children, of which Goodison is the eighth. The poem is a celebration of her mother's remarkable domestic skills, which included making "a garment from a square/in a span that defied time."
Goodison feels a deep sense of responsibility about the portrayal of her homeland and has said in interview: "If I have an agenda this is it: I want to first of all write in a language that accurately represents the people I write about. I have a great fear of writing as if I'm from middle earth." She blends Jamaican dialects, or codes, to build up a richness of language which is both sumptuous and graceful. Velma Pollard has said that "the rendering of… complex voices in a single statement by the deft manipulation of lexicon and syntax of the different codes is, I believe, Goodison's major contribution to Caribbean literature." Listening to Lorna Goodison's voice on this Archive recording, we are able to understand immediately how the music and cadences of her language are integral to its meanings.
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"I just fell head over heels then and there," says the now-23-year-old Wilcox of his future wife. The next year, Wilcox finally got his chance to introduce himself to his Colombian-born wife, when they were both cast in a production of "The Gondoliers." Jumping on the opportunity to give a ride home, "I asked her to marry me when we were in the car then, actually," remembers the tenor, who was still in high school at the time.
Flattered and flummoxed, Cuevas, who was a music student at Jacksonville State at the time, allowed her brother, who was also in the car, to deliver the heartbreaking news to Wilcox. "My brother told him, 'Well, I think you're going to have to ask Richard,' — that was my boyfriend's name at the time," she recalls.
Wilcox didn't need to worry, however. The two ended up building a friendly relationship, and soon found themselves working together again — and back in the car, nonetheless — when they were rehearsing for the opera "The Secret Garden," which was staged in Gadsden.
"We spent a lot of time together in the car learning music and talking. Our relationship was based definitely off of a friendship," Wilcox said.
It wasn't until Wilcox's senior year in high school, when he and Cuevas were both cast in a production of "La Boheme" with Opera Birmingham in 2007 that Richard finally left the picture and Wilcox was able to make a move.
"I really tried to stay away so she could process, but she didn't really want that — and we've been together ever since," he said.
The couple, who married in 2010, have been making beautiful music together ever since. Cuevas Wilcox received her bachelor's degree in music the same year they wed, with Eric is due to receive his degree in the same discipline this spring. The two are both planning to pursue post-graduate work and each teach music classes to students of all ages in Jacksonville, Gadsden and The Donoho School. Long term, the two would both love to pursue careers in the field.
"There are many things that have to fall into place … in order to have a career," Cuevas Wilcox says. "We understand that it's very competitive, and it's not just about having a good voice or having a good technique; it's being at the right place at the right time, knowing the right people."
For now, they are starring in the title roles of the operatic "Romeo et Juliette" by Charles Gounod, which involves JSU Opera Theater, Ars Nova Opera Community from Huntsville, Etowah Youth Orchestra and Downtown Dance Conservatory from Gadsden tonight and Saturday at Gadsden State, marking their first romantic pairing together (they starred in Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" together in 2009 as entangled lovers). Their performing with each other puts Cuevas Wilcox, who was asked to take on the role, at ease.
"He is very natural on stage," she says. "That makes my job easier because I'm not trying to [make up] something. I actually feel it naturally because of what he's doing onstage."
Wilcox echoes mutual sentiments about performing with his wife.
"Estefania's voice is really easy to fall in love with, and I think the audience will think so, too. She has a sweetness to her sound and a warmth that makes Juliet very ethereal and pure — there's an innocence to her sound."
Presented in French with English subtitles, the two-hour opera has demanded much from the performers both physically and vocally.
"To sing operatically for that long, you have to build your stamina and really have your technique in check," says Cuevas Wilcox. Learning the language, says Wilcox, poses technical hurdles of its own.
"I can't speak French, but I know what every word I'm singing means!" he says of learning the script and nailing the pronunciations. "It's hard because you have to do everything with your voice and you still have to [sing] over an orchestra. Your whole body makes the sound — it's not your throat at all."
Of all of the challenges the opera posed, one caught Wilcox a bit off-guard.
"The director yesterday had to spend extra time telling me how to kiss her," he says. "He was telling me that I can't be about the kiss, I have to be about getting to the kiss, so I guess that was the problem — I move too fast, and I start kissing too soon."
If you go
Where: "Romeo et Juliette," by Charles Gounod
When: 7 p.m. today and Saturday
Where: Gadsden State Community College, Wallace Hall Fine Arts Center
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The number of environmental variables used during modelling could affect the outcome, but we found no correlation between these and our estimates of extinction risk in global samples. Although further investigation is needed, it is unlikely to result in substantially reduced estimates of extinction. Anthropogenic climate change seems set to generate very large numbers of species-level extinctions.Resource Type: Journal Papers
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Ecoregions of the continents are based on macroclimate (i.e., the climate that lies just beyond the local modifying irregularities of landform and vegetation). The theory behind the approach is that macroclimates are among the most significant factors affecting the distribution of life on Earth. As the macroclimate changes, the other components of the ecosystem change in response. Macroclimates influence soil formation and help shape surface topography, as well as affecting the suitability for human habitation.
Four Domains were defined: Polar, Humid temperate, Humid tropical and Dry. The combination of temperature and rainfall to indicate major climatic zones was based on Köppen and Trewartha's work, where dry climates were treated as a separate entity from Tropical humid and Temperate humid. However, the Köppen system defines an addtional "Subtropical" division at this level.
The next level in the Bailey system is the Divisions, and these are also climate - based, for example in the Humid temperate Domain there is Hot continental, Warm continental, Subtropical, Marine, Prairie and Mediterranean, all with Mountain variants (i.e., a total of 12 Divisions in this Domain). There are a total of 30 of these.
The third and last level are the Provinces, which are based on physiognomy of vegetation, modified by climate. For example, the Forest-Meadow of Eastern Oceanic (Monsoon climate). There are a total of 98 of these subdivisions.
The global map has been digitised and converted to a geographic (lat/long) projection by the WCMC, Cambridge, UK. It is also available on CD from NOAAs National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colorado as part of their Global Ecosystem Database Project. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/Store/.Resource Type: Spatial Data / Maps
The report, the fifth in UNEP's 'rapid response assessment' series, looks beyond forests and the REDD debates to the potential of natural and agricultural ecosystems to capture and store carbon. It examines the potential for gaining multiple benefits for livelihoods and ecosystem services through managing ecosystem carbon and considers the implications for policy.Resource Type: Reports
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Although Asian bamboo species constitute a non-timber forest product of major cultural and economic importance, no detailed regional assessment of their distribution patterns has previously been made. To assess the potential of the existing bamboo species distribution data for production of regional mapping tools for planning the conservation of forest-based biodiversity, data on bamboo distribution and forest cover were combined. Over 1000 bamboo species from 60 genera of woody bamboos were incorporated, allowing the mapping of individual species or groups of species and genera, along with potential species richness and biodiversity hotspots. Over 6.3 million km2 of Asian forest potentially contains bamboo, with highest densities indicated from northeastern India through Burma to southern China, and through Sumatra to Borneo. The highest figures for potential species richness (144 spp per square km) were recorded in forests of south China, including Hainan Island. Despite substantial inadequacies and inconsistencies in knowledge of the taxonomy and distribution of bamboo species, this approach may provide a valuable tool for planning in situ conservation of forest biodiversity.Resource Type: Journal Papers
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Printing from a laptop easily makes it onto the list of top business travel irritations. Unless a portable printer is weighing down your suitcase, there aren't many options. The proliferation of cable connectors and driver programs make communications between a laptop and a printer in a hotel business center a nuisance, to say the least, and if you need to print from a PDA, two-way pager, or Internet phone, forget about it.
However, things are about to change. Last Tuesday, Foster City, Calif.–based Electronics for Imaging Inc. celebrated the official launch of PrintMe Networks, which allows users to print from any computer or wireless device to any printer on its network over the Internet. The launch was at the New York Marriott Marquis, the first hotel outfitted with PrintMe-enabled printers, and the first of 370 Marriotts expected to have the system in place by the end of the year.
A basic explanation of PrintMe Networks goes like this: When travelers want to print from a laptop, they point their browser to www.printme.com. There they sign up as a member, if they haven't already (it's free), or just type in their user name and password. From there, a click on the "browse" button allows them to view their hard drive and select a document to be printed. (The system recognizes files in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, JPEG, PDF, and PostScript formats.) Depending on the situation, the user can print directly to a PrintMe-enabled printer or assign the document an ID number and retrieve it once they arrive at the printer by typing a document ID code into a keypad attached to the printer. Users don't need any special software or hardware. Documents can also be sent to the PrintMe network via e-mail, allowing printing from any mobile device.
The cost to the user is determined by the venue. Marriott charges about $1 per page while PrintMe partners Sir Speedy and OfficeMax will charge about 50 cents a page. EFI makes money by getting a percentage of the printing revenues and/or charging a monthly fee to companies that connect to the network. The system can also send documents to a fax machine, but users have to pay a $9.95 monthly fee.
Marriott's involvement with PrintMe stems from its affiliation with EFI's strategic partner STSN. STSN provides high-speed Internet access to approximately 470 hotels, including 370 Marriotts. All STSN Marriotts will soon offer the PrintMe service, according to Ofer Tenenbaum, EFI general manager, who said they hope to get STSN's other properties signed on as well.
"It's one of those technology solutions that seems so stupidly simple that it's almost hard to take apart as a concept," says Ethan Cohen, research director, personal information technology, for Boston-based IT market analysis firm Aberdeen Group. Cohen got a demonstration on the PrintMe Network shortly after the launch and was struck with its ease of use. " [EFI has] both a solution that works—i.e. we even took out our Palm VIIs and printed on the spot. It really does work. And EFI has thought about retrofitting existing printers without relying on a traditional embedded software strategy. … From a consumer perspective, it seems incredibly friendly. With the no-subscription model, the value-add to the consumer is pretty big."


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"We were able to play the entire game," Benson said. "We also were able to find the back of the net. I was proud of my girls for being able to bounce back after last night's loss."
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Teflon Fret Dam
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Fret press for neck heel and hard-to-clamp areas.
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Two big games in one day can cause trouble on the roadFargo, ND (WDAY TV) -- For football fans back home, with two big games on TV, it's a long day of celebrating, that can cause trouble on the road.
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Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) -- For football fans back home, with two big games on TV, it's a long day of celebrating, that can cause trouble on the road.
One day. Two big games. The NDSU Bison in a national championship...
Krause: "Being a student at NDSU, I had to support!"
And Vikings versus Packers in a Super Bowl playoff.
Haug: "Used to live in Green Bay, so I'm going to stay here to watch the Green Bay Packers hopefully beat the Vikings!"
Many are knocking back a few as part of the celebration, but a long day of drinking can cause trouble on the roads.
Bailey Krause and a group of friends planned around that fact.
Krause: "I'm not trying to get in trouble, so that's number one!"
They figured it would be best to stay within walking distance of her apartment.
Krause: "We didn't want to drive, personally, obviously. And it would have taken a little longer to get back down to my apartment."
And Bison and Packers fan Jon Haug says it's always important to have a back-up plan.
Haug: "You always hear about DUIs, people getting hurt in car crashes. You have to be smart about going out and having fun."
As for police, they say they've been doing patrols all day, keeping in mind that people are out celebrating, and hoping everyone heeds the warnings to plan ahead.
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Well, here they are. I've been working on them off and on for about 2 months now. If your having trouble getting them to work properly or something of the sort, PM/Email/IM me and we'll work it out.
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Ana Prokic '04 may be going home to Serbia soon"like it or not.
Prokic, who lives in Chicago, worked for a law firm there, and recently got her MBA, is among tens of thousands of former international students vying for an increasingly limited number of professional work visas. Unless she can find a job and a sponsor soon, she'll be packing her bags and heading for Belgrade.
"I've been here since I was sixteen," said Prokic, a graduate of the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in New Mexico, Colby, and Loyola University's business school. "I don't now how to function as an adult anywhere else."
She may have no choice.
A Serbian citizen, Prokic needs something called an H1B visa from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in order to continue to work here. Since earning her master's with high honors from Loyola in February, Prokic has been on the job hunt. She's made it to the final rounds of interviews several times but says when potential employers hear she needs the visa, they find another candidate.
As one recruiter put it, "Oh, that's going to be hard," she recalled.
The problem is that under current U.S. law, the number of new six-year work visas for professionals is capped at 65,000, a third of the number allotted two years ago. On the first day that applications were accepted in fall 2006, more than 120,000 were received. (Some major IT companies apply for as many as 20,000 H1B visas each year.) This round, some 58,000 applications were chosen by lottery and the rest were dumped back into the pool, which doesn't bode well for future odds. And students and recent graduates fear that many employers will decide it isn't worth the trouble to go through the application process.
"This had not just the seniors worried but the juniors and sophomores," said Susan McDougal, associate dean of students at Colby. The underclassmen were saying, "'By the time we get up there, there will be nothing available.'"
McDougal has assured students and young international alumni that U.S. companies still will want their services. Some recent graduates have been hired under the one-year "optional practical training" visa offered students enrolled in U.S. colleges. Some have returned to their home countries temporarily to cross their fingers and hope for an H1B visa.
"I'm praying really hard," said Francis Chapuredima '06, who was working at a school in Kenya this summer as he waited for an H1B visa that would allow him to return to his mathematics teaching job at Berkshire School in Massachusetts.
Some recent graduates have been transferred to company offices in the UK and other parts of the world to wait out the U.S. visa process, McDougal said. Still others have gone to graduate school earlier than they had planned, putting the visa process off a year or two.
Nico Mwai '06, a computer science major from Kenya who, like Prokic, attended the UWC in New Mexico, landed an information technology job right after graduation. Mwai moved to New York City to work for Revenue Solutions, a company that provides financial technology and strategic planning. For a year he worked on tax software used by the City of New York.
But Mwai wasn't one of the lucky ones in the visa lottery, and he recently had to leave what he said was "exactly the kind of job I wanted to do." He said his supervisors at Revenue Systems were pleased with his work and sorry to have to let him go. But he isn't going far.
Mwai has enrolled at PC Tech, a vocational school in Manhattan, a move that will provide computer training"and allow him to stay in the U.S. while he awaits the next H1B offering. "I want to stay legal," he said.
McDougal pointed to efforts by industry (H1B visas are seen as essential to the U.S. technology industry) to persuade Congress to raise the professional work visa limit back to 115,000. But that hope was dashed when the comprehensive immigration reform bill"which included the H1B bills"died in Congress in June.
Meanwhile the pressure mounts for talented, well-educated young graduates like Prokic.
Told by her supervisor at the law firm that the firm would only sponsor lawyers, she decided to get her MBA in three semesters to be better poised for the visa application process. She earned high honors in finance and international business but, as of June, hadn't found a company in Chicago willing to hire her with the H1B visa issue looming. Serbia isn't in the European Union, which rules out a UK solution, she said. If she returns to Belgrade, she said, she'll likely find a job but at a fifth or less of the salary she would earn in the U.S. That will make it nearly impossible for her to pay off her student loans, she said, noting that in her time in the U.S. she has earned another good mark"a solid credit rating.
American friends tell her she'll find a way, including joking about a so-called "green-card marriage," but Prokic has always played by the rules and plans to continue to do so. "I've always done everything by the book," she said, "but because of that, I may have to pack up in six months and leave everything behind."


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Neighborhoods: MIT
Great Hotel BUT... – It's a great hotel but if any of you are looking to save some $$ then book it at referer.us/8/GoodHotelDeals They usually have some pretty good deals on there!
fun easter brunch! – I've been going to the Hyatt regency almost every Easter for years with my family. The rooms are comfortable and always clean. The easter brunch buffet spread is always most impressive.
not worth the money – got stuck staying here since the Doubletree was all booked. I stayed here w/ 2 colleagues this wk and we were not impressed, esp. considering it's a Hyatt and the amount of money we paid. we got 1 large suite ($419/night) and 2 standard rms ($298/night). the rooms were ok but ive stayed at nicer Marriott's and Sheratons. the bathrooms are tiny and the shower had a little mold crust at the corners. the room is also very damp, esp. the carpets.
the worst part about this hotel is the food; it's a total rip off. I know it's not cheap to eat at hotels but come on, for the prices they are charging, it should be way better. I ordered rm service 1 night and it was $52 for crappy fettuccine alfredo w/ salty fishy grilled shrimp and a lemonade. wtf. the next night, knowing better to eat outside of the hotel, I got the seared tuna app. at the hotel bar while waiting for my colleagues and it was terrible - fishy, dry, stale, BLEH - $20! I was annoyed so we told them to send it back which they thankfully did and did not charge us for it. I will admit the egg cheese sausage biscuit they offered at breakfast was pretty yummy.
rip-off #2 is the parking - $35/night - CRAZY! terrible. that is the most I have ever paid for parking at any hotel and ive stayed at alot, esp. in Boston.
I am def. never coming back here. you get nothing for the money they are charging you.
In need of a renovation – The service at the hotel was uninspired. Rate was over priced. The quality of the linens were low, and the guestroom chair had tears in it. The hotel lobby is old, carpet frayed. The hotel fell way below Hyatt standards. In a city with many great hotels don't even bother...
Love it! – The view of the Charles is breathtaking. I stayed here during my freshmen orientation when my parents came up with me. I went jogging by the river in the morning and that was awesome. The rooms are nice too, better than the other hotels my parents stayed at when they visited other times. And the building itself looks so nice at night!
My favorite place to stay when visiting Boston. – The Hyatt Regency is not cheap, but it is worth it when staying in Boston. I love waking up to see the Boston University crew teams rowing on the St.Charles river. The staff is very helpful, the breakfast was good, and the hotel is within walking distance of Fenway Park (which is a must for me)!
This location of the international hotel chain provides business travelers with a home away from home. – In Short
Tired business travelers and tourists heave a sigh of relief when they find the indoor pool, sauna, fitness center and decent restaurant. Standard rooms deliver the expected comfort of such accommodations, while pricier suites feature a parlor with sofa and oversized desk. The business traveler will feel especially at home -- a business service enables maximum productivity with computer workstations, Internet access, laser printers, fax machines and copiers.
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Spas >Dorit Baxter New York Day Spa
47 W 57th St, New York, NY | Directions 1001940.768698 -73.991818
Neighborhoods: Midtown
YAY for SPA WEEK! – I WENT BACK!! I had a terrible headache and he was so great at concentrating on my head, neck and shoulders to work out all the tension, it was TERRIFIC! It released a lot of my tension I was expereicning. I am going back for their leg works special for Sept. Ill keep you posted!
So I went to the Spa Week website to get great deal and I came across DoritBaxter. They were offereing EXACTLY what I was looking for. A great facial for only $50 it was a great experience I hadnt had a facial in a while and really needed it! They were wonderful and it was a relaxing environment with excellent service. Oh and the fresh ice cold lemon water to quinch your thirst after being under all that steam ! My "facialist" was wonderful I winched, instinctively, who doesnt winch when someone is clearing black heads from the tip of your nose, and she immediately asked me if I was okay and moved to a different area to give me some recovery time! Even the part we all dread, extractions, were done so well there! And she mentioned a hydrating mask which was an extra $25 and I feel GREAT!! I figured with the winter I better hydrate my skin as best as I can. They are a full spa and I cant wait to go back for more. They even have a customer appreciation card and amazing products that I am going to go back to buy, and possibly a couple other treatments!! Full spa days that include lunch. DoritBaxter.... ITS A MUST!!!
I'm in Love – The people that work there have magical hands. Definately going back!
20 Years and Counting!! – Dorit Baxter was my first spa experience 20 years ago and I'm still a loyal customer....I've tried others, but always come back to the ease, comfort, professionalism, and coziness of Dorit's spa.
The staff knows and acknowledges me and I feel like I'm at an old friend's home, being treated like a queen. The prices are very competitive and worth it. I always recommend it and have given certificates to many a friends and family!
If you want to have a day to treat yourself, you should try Dorit Baxter spa. They have great prices and follow them on twitter for special deals daily!!
Reliably great spa experience – I've been going to this family-owned and operated day spa for more than 10 years and I love it. Not only are the packages insanely reasonably priced (awesome gifts!), the people are lovely, talented, and wonderfully accommodating. I highly recommend Akiko for facials and Natasha for massage.
This place is tried and true. In 10 years, it has remained calm, cool and pristine. The location makes you feel like a princess, as you can look over 57th street from above in your robe. When family/friends visit, I bring them here (if they are good). LOVE it.
Treat – LOVE this place!!!! I went there for the first time a few weeks ago for a spa package - facial, massage and manicure. I was greeted by the owner (she is a sweetheart) and the staff, all of which were very polite.
I liked the facilities and rooms and the spa had a very calm and cozy feel to it. I wasn't rushed or made to wait... the timing between each treatment was perfect.
I will be sure to go back soon ;-)
Best NY Spa – I have been going to Dorit Baxter for nearly 5 years now. Great first time experience for someone who have never had a facial. The staff and Dorit are excellent!!! You are made to feel special from the moment you walk into the door. All your needs are met. The environment is clean and very tranquil. Their salt scrub is to die for. Their facials are one of the best or the best that I ever had. Great skin analysis. You are left feeling refresh after a visit to this spa. They even do prenatal massages which i had the luxury to have during a visit in October. You can call anytime and they will try to fit you in. Even got my sister hook.
My Favorite Spa – My sister introduced me to Dorit Baxter as a birthday gift 2 years ago and it's been my favorite ever since. That was my first time at a spa but it wasn't my first time getting a facial. It was love at first sight. I got the sea salt scrub, which is phenomenal. A facial (which I only get done at Dorit Baxter now), and a one hour body massage. I left the spa so relaxed that I didn't do anything for the rest of the day. Lol. Not only do I love Dorit Baxter, but their facial products are the only ones that have worked best for my skin. Thank You, Dorit Baxter for your services. I actually have an appointment this Saturday :-)
LOVE LOVE LOVE – I have gone to DoritBaxter before and just went back yesterday! Everyone there is professional and personable. My massage was amazing, I could of gone for an extra hour! I also received a facial, my facialist was great, she recommended treatments that I can do at home for up keep at home. The prices are great, and they are always have package specials. I will be back to Dorit in the very near future!
A TRUE OUTERBODY EXPERIENCE – I went to Dorit Baxter for a Full Day Chill out. I was so pleasantly surprised and left feeling like I was born yesterday. I had no waiting time at all! From one service to the next like they were all waiting for me.
My day started with a 2 hour intense workout at 6:00 am at my gym and then I gave myself this treat of the full day spa. My first treatment was a facial which left my skin so vibrant and then a great manicure and pedicure with a salt scrub. Lunch on the house, I ordered a grilled salmon and mash potatoes for lunch...yum. Lemon ice water and a cookie to wash it down..ok maybe 2 cookies:).
The second half of my day included a one hour massage, detoxifying herbal body wrap and body salt scrub...what a dream. I left dizzy from feeling so good.
It was a day full of mind, body and soul just for me. I am a mother of 2 small princesses and never really do anything like this. With a window of opportunity I took it and ran!
BEST of all the midtown spas – This is my very very favorite place to be on almost any day. The services are superb and it's an incredible value! I would ABSOLUTELY reccomend it!! Do a package! Take a girlfriend (or boyrfriend) and spend the day!
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She's sexy. She's spicy. Oh, and of course she's Scary. Spice Girl Mel B is back as the star of her new reality show, Mel B: It's a Scary World — opening her home to share with viewers her life as a mother of two, wife to producer Stephen Belafonte and consummate diva. Get an insider peak at a few of her favorite home and style must-haves that'll make you say zig-a-zig ah!
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Creating the perfect mood at home is essential to the singer. Especially during foot rubs (which she gives her hubby on the show!), Mel is known to light Milena's Candles around the house. "They smell amazing and are made from vegetable soy. After they melt, you can even rub a little on your skin as a moisturizer."
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Jetsetting from London to L.A. and everywhere in between can take a toll on the star. Her go-to reprieve is Real Water, which is alkalized, antioxidant bottled water. "I pack it in my checked luggage so I always have plenty on hand," says Mel B. "When you travel as much as I do, it is important to stay hydrated"
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For her 35th birthday, cameras captured Stephen surprising Mel B with a white watch encrusted with diamonds. "It is perfect for me because it has two times zones and I can always tell what time it is in Los Angeles or London. And I love the diamonds!" Get the look of Mel's latest bauble.
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Mel and Stephen enjoy entertaining, so to wow their guests the two invested in some "elegant" dinnerware. "Nothing dresses up a table like a beautiful set of Hermès porcelain plates," she insists. The "timeless set" isn't only for special occasions but also for when Mel just wants to enjoy a cup of English Breakfast tea.
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Known for that raspy voice and seductive style, Mel B refuses to travel (or even walk around her LA home) without patent leather stilettos. "They are sleek and elegant, and I love the red soles," says the singer, who performed with the Pussycat Dolls during her show's season opener. "They go with anything!"
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Juggling rambunctious daughters Phoenix and Angle Iris (Mel's with former flame Eddie Murphy) is no easy job. So to keep an extra eye on them, she employs The Elf on the Shelf. "In his presence, [Angel] is on her best behavior because she knows the elf is watching."
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The Prophet
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The Puzzle Piece
Anybody see this kid's missing piece of hair? It's black and is about the size of his entire forehead.
The Nationalist
Chairman Mao approves.
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The No Business, All Party
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The Jackson
Billy Jean is not my lover, but she's apparently your barber.
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The Blob
Say a prayer for the three cans of Aqua Net that were killed in the making of this hairstyle.
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Perfect for a dark ages tax collector, nowadays you just look crazy.
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What's worse than having a rat with a long tail on the back of your head? A lizard with a longer tail on your entire head.
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Some people want attention. This guy really wants it.
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Just like Chuck Norris, this kid ain't joking around. Little known fact: The back of this kid's head once stopped a bank robbery.
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Reluctant witch Eden Riley knows that codependent relationships aren't good, especially when you're possessed by a sexy but troublemaking demon. Darrak's physical form makes good girl Eden want to go bad, but the constant itch to use the soul-destroying black magic she's recently acquired might force Eden to explore her dark side in an entirely different way.
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- Executive Story Consultant: Myles Wilder.
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- Writers: Barry Blitzer, Larz Bourne, Dick Conway and Buddy Atkinson, Rance Howard and Jim Begg, Jack Mendelsohn, John Fenton Murray, Ray Parker, Bill Raynor.
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On the fictional morning of June 16, 1904--Bloomsday, as it has come to be known--Mr. Leopold Bloom set out from his home at 7 Eccles Street and began his day's journey through Dublin life in the pages of James Joyce's novel of the century,Ulysses. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday,Yes I Said Yes I Will Yesoffers a priceless gathering of what's been said aboutUlyssessince the extravagant praise and withering condemnation that first greeted itupon its initial publication. From the varied appraisals of such Joyce contemporaries as William Butler Yeats ("It is an entirely new thing. . . . He has certainly surpassed in intensity any novelist of our time") and Virginia Woolf ("Never did I read such tosh"), to excerpts from Tennessee Williams' term paper "WhyUlyssesis Boring" and assorted wit, praise, parody, caricature, photographs, anecdotes, bon mots, and reminiscence, this treasury of Bloomsiana is a lively and winning tribute to the most famous day in literature.
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Bo Derek: "10" Into One
On her own two years after her husband's death, Bo Derek, the original "10," is forging a new path.
Alysse Minkoff
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Saddling her horse for a morning ride through Southern California's Santa Ynez Valley, one fact is apparent: at 43, Bo Derek is luminous. She is one of those rare women who resonate beauty from the inside out. No longer the ingenue, she is still the reluctant celebrity, named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in an April issue of People magazine. Alone for the first time in her adult life, she is soft-spoken and in many ways still the enigmatic fantasy figure that captured men's hearts decades ago. Who would have thought that her brief appearance in 10, Blake Edwards's 1979 farce of male mid-life crisis, would coin a phrase that still applies to her today?
Certainly not Bo Derek. "The film opened and there was this sensation," she says. "There was a buzz. Not from the industry, just from the public. Usually, when a girl comes on the scene in a sensational way, you've [already] known her. She's modeled. She's done commercials. She's done television. She's acted somewhere before. But to come just out of the blue like that is unusual. And journalists didn't know who I was. They had heard I was married to John Derek so they went back into those old files. That's where the label, 'He's Svengali, I'm Trilby,' came from. The press just sort of created me. I didn't know what was coming, but John knew because he'd seen it so many times before."
The couple met in 1973 on the set of And Once Upon a Love (released in 1981 as Fantasies). John Derek directed the film; Bo was an aspiring 16-year-old actress and model from Southern California named Mary Cathleen Collins, the oldest of four children of Paul and Norma Collins. Though there was a 30-year age difference between Bo and John and he had already been married three times (his ex-wives include actresses Ursula Andress and Linda Evans), the couple fell in love and wed in 1976.
Hollywood and the press reviled their union. Yet Bo claims John was her soul mate, her partner in every sense. "John always believed, and it made sense to me, that you stay with someone as long as you're in love with them and you want to be with them. You don't do it out of habit, a sense of duty or things like that. And we didn't have children to complicate matters. So every day we stayed together, it was because we wanted to be with each other and in each other's company. Twenty-five years proved that it was meant to be." She pauses for a minute and giggles. "Either it was true love or John was the most incredible Svengali [with] incredible powers."
Twenty-one when she filmed 10, Bo had never taken the movie business seriously. Becoming the "It Girl" and the object of every man's fantasies overnight was a dizzying experience, one that didn't endear her to many women, particularly feminists, who made her a target.
"Women had to do what they had to do," Bo says. "I wasn't so easy for them. So I wouldn't want to criticize what they've done. My problem with the women's movement is that it's kind of a moot point if [all women] would just vote. Women are the majority, but they don't bother voting. Certainly we don't have to get together and decide we are going to vote this way or that way, but I think as women we would vote similarly. It's hard to understand why we're the majority and we're not in control. It's really quite simple: just vote."
Being a Republican makes Bo a bit of an anomaly in her industry, yet she is pro-choice and pro-gay rights. The fact that Bo Derek has political views at all may come as a surprise to those who only recall the girl who drove Dudley Moore's character to distraction.
"She has conservative views, which are unusual in Hollywood," says Chris Matthews, the host of CNBC's political talk show "Hardball," who recently had Bo as a guest on his show. "She's very eloquent and makes a real presentation. I didn't have a preconception [of what she would be like]. The idea of '10' forces out other estimates. You only get one chance at a reputation in life--when you get a reputation for being a 'perfect 10', a beauty beyond imagination, it's hard for people to say, 'What else?'. But in the case of our program [with her] they can say, 'What else?' pretty quickly. She was a treasure of a guest."
Many critics saw John Derek as the master manipulator behind the whole "Bo Phenomenon," and Bo's decision to retain the creative control of her career, as opposed to putting it in the hands of the movie studios, only fanned the flames. Thumbing their noses at the Hollywood establishment, the couple in 1980 created their own film production company, naming it Svengali, Inc.
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Norma M. Alexander, 73, 1008 Plymouth Ave., Piqua, died at 11:15 a.m. Oct. 28, 2008, at home.
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